"U.S. releases unclassified spy images of Arctic ice"

An interesting story posted by Reuters The Globe and several other news sources.

To begin with I feel that it is important to note that these documents were declassified by the Obama administration in contradiction to the Bush
administration who, for some undisclosed reason, chose to keep these images 'classified'.

The pictures, kept secret by Washington during the presidency of George W Bush, were declassified by the White House last week.
President Barack Obama is currently trying to galvanise Congress and the American public to take action to halt catastrophic climate change caused by
rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

It is a good thing that the Obama administration decided to declassify these images as they are extremely helpful in studying planetary changes and
determining appropriate actions to deal with the impacts of these changes n the built environment.

The Arctic images have a resolution of about 1 yard (1 meter), a vast improvement on previously available pictures of sea ice, said Thorsten
Markus of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

"These are one-meter-resolution images, which give you a big picture of the summertime Arctic," Markus said on Thursday. "This is the main reason
why we are so thrilled about it. One meter resolution is the dimension that's missing."

Im taking these images with a grain of salt. Judging by the general trend in government that is for Global Warming Advocacy, its hard to believe
George Bush, who spent half his presidency fighting climate battles, would have kept a piece of proof like this secret.

I'd say, if anything, these are fabricated images that nobody will disbelieve because we have been lead to think that bush classified them and put
them under lock and key because they were so explosive.

A year on year comparison for the last 20 years must be readily available from these spy photos - it's a pity that couldn't be provided.

I recall going summer skiing during August every year for 4 years on the Stubai glacier in Austria for 4 years during the early 90s, one year it would
be snow/ice everywhere, the next year there would be none and the locals would be desperately making it using snow machines to keep their income
stream flowing. It was just inconsistent.

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